June 2010
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #16: Elissa Nelson in Conversation with Margaret Nelson Brinkhaus
Elissa Nelson interviewed her mother, Margaret Nelson Brinkhaus, who has been a freelance journalist since before Elissa was born, working for a variety of magazines and newspapers including People, Newsweek, and USA Today.
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Morning Coffee
Our good friend at A Journey Round My Skull points our attention towards the best robot ever. Incredibly important: “W” as vowel. Ahh, the glory that is Soviet publicity art. This skyscraper is powered by algae and will filter that…
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The Rumpus Book Club Interviews John Brandon
The Rumpus Book Club talks with John Brandon about Citrus County, his second novel from McSweeney’s.
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 6/28-7/1
This week in San Francisco, the history of pisco punch, put on your flapper finery for the Gatsby Ball, how to choose the perfect vibrator (or vibrators?), sexy new art at Femina Potens Gallery, and hear some free jazz at…
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The Rumpus Book Club, Where I Live #7: Charlene Keeler
I live in Huntington Beach, which is in Orange County, California. We are famous for surf contests and skinheads, but I have only seen the latter, usually at 7-11. Skinheads like 7-11 coffee.
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“Until quite recently, to be Irish meant to be not-English.”
“My march to the bookies, my filling out the docket and handing it over the counter with my cash: this was going to be my post-post-colonial moment. I’d sit through the month and cheer England’s progress because I, like my…
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The Eyeball #32: Two Ways to Deal with the End of the World
If you’re like me, you grew up running various scenarios about what you’d do if the world were to end. Would you go nuts and run around in a stadium wearing a woman’s slip like the guy in The Quiet…
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Rivka Hearts Jorge
“Little is quite as dull as literary worship; this essay on Borges is thus happily doomed.” Rivka Galchen, author of Atmospheric Disturbances, on the importance of Jorge Luis Borges. (via PW)
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #42
ATLAS SHRUGGED ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Atlas Shrugged.
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A Man We Would Very Much Like to Cut Our Hair
Swan Songs offers three vignettes of America’s increasingly scant tradesmen. From Mr. Rogers ex-barber to the last standing champion of mechanical based typesetting, the Americana-drenched series from True/Slant makes us think about what we lost when we stopped using our…